DenPratt

57 year old male married 34 years with 15YO homeschooling daughter.  Northwestern psychology and computer science grad; MIT business.  Retried from serial high tech startups.  Currently "community organizer" for charities: 

- Personal growth (organizer of Personal Growth Network, 3rd largest personal growth group in New England),

- Alternatives to traditional schooling (help new types of schools start up and try to make parents aware they have options),

- Ethics of human freedom.  

I was socialist until 20s when I worked at startup with a strong conservative owner.  In 1980, after arguing for a year, we came to a consistent, comprehensive political philosophy based on peaceful, voluntary cooperation without our prior excuses for initiation of coercion. Discovered several years later about "libertarianism".  Frustrated for years with inability to convert others.  Voted against Ron Paul (for Russell Means) as Massachusetts delegate at Libertarian Party national convention in 1987 because more interested in impact on poor than on money supply.  Gave up in 1990s as too stressful and too hard to get traction.  Re-energized with Ron Paul discussing libertarian economic and peace concepts on national TV.  

Currently strong anarchist interested in talking ethics of human freedom and in helping to explain human freedom to the general population.